General Fiction

Another compelling novel by Murray, a surefire hit about three women struggling to bridge the dangerous gap between appearance and reality. Secrets, scandal, and sin abound in the private lives of popular evangelic gospel group Destiny's Divas in this...

A powerful collection of novellas by four leading African-American women writers, each tackling the terror of domestic violence. In Other People's Skin, Tracy Price-Thompson and TaRessa Stovall, along with writers Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper,...

In the long-awaited, spectacular sequel to "The Upper Room," Maureen Montgomery still can't believe she was able to break away from her dominating Mama Ruby. But she will need to draw on more strength than she ever thought she had to make a future that...

This is 202 pages of urban fiction at it's deadliest. Journey behind the walls of one of America's most dangerous prisons and find one of your biggest fears. People die here...almost daily.

Publisher Comments: New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey returns with a flaming-hot stand-alone set in the world of conmen and thieves. We can plan all we want, but sometimes fate has a different agenda... Dmytryk was a respectable man.....

The inimitable Wahida Clark delivers the next installment of her bestselling high-octane urban drama series, Payback--filled with the glamour, sex, and danger that fans of the series can't get enough of and that new readers will rush to. Picking up where...

Street fiction's most infamous bad girl, Leah Richards, holds the fate of an entire family in her hands, in "New York Times"-bestselling author Antoinette's heart-pounding sequel to "The Prada Plan."When you've been labeled crazy all of your life, it's...

"Forna, recipient of a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Ancestor Stones, returns to Africa's troubled conscience in this admirable if uneven outing. Adrian Lockheart is a well-meaning English psychologist who embarks on a temporary post at a Sierra Leone...

A satirical novel of the Harlem Renaissance.This roman clef centers on Niggeratti Manor, fashioned after the Harlem rooming house in which Wallace Thurman once lived with other black artists and writers. Thurman's second novel is one of the most potent...

The adult son of Ethiopian immigrants sets out to retrace his mother and father's trip and weave together a family history that will take him from the war-torn Ethiopia of his parents' youth to his life in the America of today. From the prizewinning...

Publisher Comments: The infamous Reverend Curtis Black's sordid past is no secret, as his wife, Charlotte, is well aware. But when Curtis' long-time mistress and mother of his illegitimate two-year-old, dies, he and Charlotte have no choice but to raise...

In a city where power struggles take place daily on Capitol Hill, another power struggle is taking place beyond the monuments; namely between Damion Eric Cross, his girlfriend Crystal Renee Leonard and his girlfriend, Madison Paige Robinson. You can only...

An "Essence"-bestselling author spins a hilarious, inspiring novel of mistakes and second chances, heartache and love, sin and salvation--with an appearance by the beloved Sister Betty."Walker's (Somebody's Sinning in My Bed) latest hilarious faith-based...

The author of "Kinky Gazpacho" delivers a smart, funny, and surprising novel that shows what can happen when a woman who wants it all finds a nanny good enough to make her perfect dreams come apart at the seams.

The Reverend Curtis Black is turning over a new leaf--or is he? From "New York Times"-bestselling author Roby comes a novel featuring her beloved, rascally reverend.A man who once thrived on wickedness and counted on forgiveness, Curtis Black has changed...

From the Essence bestselling author of Take Her Man comes a chic page-turner starring the 3TsTamia, Troy, and Tashathree New York City It Girls whose lives are about to be turned upside down]] Gorgeous, sophisticated, and successful, Tamia is a sister...